[wdmaudiodev] Re: Vista Audio Architecture
- From: Hakon Strande <hakons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:08:38 -0700
I believe that use of AEC is a per app policy decision and a control
that should be exposed to apps in an API, not as a device specific
[hidden] feature without app control/choice or even knowledge by the app
that this processing is performed.
Some effects are perfectly appropriate as globally applied for each
logical audio device and should not be under application control, like
for instance effects that compensate for hardware design decisions such
as Microphone compensation algorithms, Room Correction algorithms, etc.
Some effects could provide a good user experience implemented either in
the app space or in the IHV controlled areas of the Windows audio
streaming path, such as speaker virtualization or non-PCM encoding.
I suppose there are different philosophies at play here. If you want to
try to do AEC in your driver or filter driver you still can. Windows is
currently moving in the direction of providing more audio path
discoverability, control and flexibility to users and applications.
Certain portions of the historically hidden (from apps in kernel mode
drivers or filter drivers) IHV value-add globally affecting the
experience each Windows application is trying to achieve/control just
fit better in the application graph in that vision.
Also, I am not sure who the client is in your scenario. Our clients are
the Windows users using applications running on Windows and if I as a
user use an application that enables me to control the use of the audio
processing algorithms that the application makes use of to create the
experience for me then me as a client would be perfectly content. It is
a paradigm shift for sure but one for the better IMHO.
Sincerely,
Hakon Strande
PM Integrated, Internal, External, and Wireless Audio Devices
MediaTech/DMD/Windows Client/Microsoft
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From: wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 4:40 PM
To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Re: Vista Audio Architecture
Hakon Strande wrote:
All legacy driver models should continue to work for basic streaming in
most cases but AEC and Mic Array processing are application graph DMO
effects in Vista (and hosted by the RTC API as well) and does not belong
in the driver layer in our vision of Windows and our desire to enable
more powerful and flexible Windows application experiences going
forward.
I understand your goal here, but how does this philosophy reconcile with
a client's quite reasonable desire to have his echo cancellation operate
globally over all audio producers and consumers? It's not clear to me
that an application-centric focus, using DMO effects in an app graph,
can provide the same end-to-end control that one has in XP.
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Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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